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Workers’ Rights
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Protesters Take Over US Trade Rep Building, Expose Secret Negotiations
The TPP will have vast consequences for U.S. laws, workers rights, the environment and many other aspects of life.
Ethical Fashion Is the Trend of the Future: An Interview With HELPSY Founder Rachel Kibbe
HELPSY's Rachel Kibbe hopes the fashion industry can start turning more toward ethical fashion.
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Resisting the Global State: A Perfectly Timed Perspective
An uncannily timely book that can well serve as manual for political education and guide to action.
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At AFL-CIO Convention, Leaders Ask: What Direction for Labor?
Without the commitment to build a social movement, all the innovative ideas coming out of the AFL-CIO convention may come to little, if anything.
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A Hundred Arrested Protesting Walmart Firings
Thousands of people participated in Thursdayu2019s protests, according to OUR Walmart, and 100 were arrested.
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Work Is Undervalued in Society’s Obsession With “Stuff“
While the media is packed with material about consumer rights, there is seldom mention of workers' rights.
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Mr. President, Have Pity on the Working Man
Tax payers' dollars are being wasted on a job creation program that only works to widen the gap of inequality.
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Turkish Deputy PM Apologizes as Mass Protests Continue
Demands for worker's rights, secularism and more democracy fueling protest movement across Turkey.
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Jobs and Justice: Raising the Floor on Workers Rights and Wages in Haiti
Beverly Bell takes a look at the economics behind third world sweatshops to propose how alternative pathways can be found.
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The DC Circuit Court Versus Workers’ Rights
While the GOP in Congress blocks National Labor Relations Board nominees, thereby incapacitating the agency, the DC Circuit Court ruling absolving employers from posting the rule of the land …